CEREBRAL PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY YIELDS 76% CLINICAL SUCCESS RATE IN PROSPECTIVE TRIAL; STENTS ALSO SHOW PROMISE, RESEARCHER REPORTS
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty had a 76% clinical success rate in the treatment of cerebral vascular ischemic patients in a study presented Nov. 14 at the American Heart Association scientific sessions in Anaheim, California. Robert Ferguson, MD, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, reported data from a five-center, 147-patient trial entitled the Cerebral Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty Register.